Give your student a refurbished HP 14 Chromebook for $110

First things first: My apologies for the confusion regarding yesterday’s bonus deal, the TechVilla Wing 1 portable speaker for $7.99. I make it a point to test every promo code before publishing a deal, but that one, well, it slipped through the cracks. The code worked, but only deducted $7.99 rather than providing a $7.99 …

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Parents granted right to access deceased daughter’s Facebook profile

Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that personal Facebook profiles should be made accessible to people’s heirs after they’ve died. A judge made the ruling as part of a case brought by the parents of a 15-year-old girl who died after being hit by a train in 2012, according to Reuters. The girl’s parents were told Facebook should grant them access …

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Justice Department appeals AT&T

The US Department of Justice may not be through with AT&T and Time Warner yet. The agency has filed a notice of appeal in its effort to stop AT&T and Time Warner from merging. Only, AT&T completed the $85 billion acquisition last month.  The move is surprising given the complete victory AT&T won over the Justice Department in the case. …

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Sprint jacks up the price for two new unlimited data plans

Sprint has joined the bandwagon of carriers redefining what an unlimited data plan should be.  The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier, awaiting a merger with No. 3 T-Mobile, on Thursday unveiled two unlimited data tiers to replace its single Sprint Unlimited Freedom plan. The first is a $60 Unlimited Basic plan, which costs the same as Unlimited Freedom, but reduces hotspot …

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Magic Leap’s long

The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. On Wednesday, after nearly four years of secrets and speculation, the $2.3 billion Magic Leap …

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Apple MacBook Pro surprise upgrade: New Intel chips, better screens, more RAM but no keyboard fix

Update, July 24: Apple has confirmed the widespread reports of throttled CPU performance on its 2018 MacBook Pro models, which have emerged since the laptops were released earlier this month. CPU clock speeds were slowed down as internal temperature spiked during high-load computing sessions. The company says the issue was due to a previously undiscovered software problem, and that it …

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What you need to know about YouTube Premium

Recently, Google launched YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. One of those is a streaming music service that offers features similar to what you’d expect in Google Play Music. The other is a streaming music service, with the added bonus of an ad-free YouTube experience.  Now playing: Watch this: Google replaces YouTube Red with YouTube Premium 1:55 But here’s the deal: …

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Magic Leap’s AR future to arrive this summer (The 3:59, Ep. 425)

On this podcast, we talk about: Magic Leap offers new details on its secretive and much-hyped augmented-reality headset and says it’ll release the gadget this summer.  We compare this week’s hardware announcements, with Apple refreshing its MacBook Pro and Microsoft revealing the Surface Go tablet. Elon Musk jumps in to help the soccer team stuck in a cave in Thailand, …

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Facebook lets people ‘try on’ clothes and makeup with AR ads

Facebook is bringing augmented reality (AR) to its ads by letting you “try on” clothes and makeup before you buy. The AR ads appear the same way as any other in News Feed, with a new “Tap to try on” option in the photo. If you do so, Facebook accesses your phone’s camera and allows you see how the item …

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It’s gone! 2015 15

With today’s arrival of updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models, Apple took the opportunity to strike an old favorite from its store: the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro. The 2015 model remained popular with many Mac users despite newer, faster MacBook Pros because it predates Apple’s switch to a new controversial butterfly keyboard design, the addition of a potentially frustrating Touch …

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FCC starts to unwind ‘kid vid’ rules

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to start the process of easing rules broadcasters must follow for airing children’s programming. But Democrats critical of the plan worry that weakening rules could be bad for kids. The so-called kid vid rules adopted in the 1990s were supposed to address concerns that kids were seeing too much violence and advertising when …

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Art meets HoloLens augmented reality in Times Square

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Organic material found on Mars

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Magic Leap finally reveals its first product, Twitter purging locked accounts

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Atlas the robot can run

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